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State of the Hopeful Union

My friend said to me, “I missed  the President’s speech. What’d he say? Give me hope.”

Ok.

He talked a lot about jobs.

She said, “Jobs? Give me hope about schools!”

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I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in the first stimulus package a year ago, but actually earmarking some of those jobs fund to protect school jobs - 300,000 teachers, school secretaries and custodians didn’t get pink slips because of those federal dollars that went right to schools.

She said, “Oh yeah. But…”

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